From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Resisting Ritalin and Experiential Learning Through The Body

April 25, 2009

Despite my efforts of ayurveda to help my ADD child (and myself), teacher friends, psychologist friends, and even my daughter’s tutor, all said, “That won’t help. It’s night and day between what happens to kids when they take drugs to focus.” So I reluctantly went to my doctor to see what could be done. Luckily, [...]

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Children and Ayurveda

April 22, 2009

So I have been implementing an ayurvedic diet in my children’s diet with mixed success. We cleaned out the cupboards and shopped for all the good things on the list for my daughter’s vata imbalance my and son’s pitta imbalance. My son squirmed while I put drops in his eyes to cool down the heat [...]

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Stories and Yoga for Young Girls’ Self-Confidence

April 20, 2009

I just did a class for fourth grade, at-risk, Lantino girls and the school social worker had asked me to build their self esteem during the class. So I started out with my puppet Lalita doing Spanish and intros to set the stage and center the space. We passed around a little heart stone, as [...]

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Ayurveda for Children with ADD

April 16, 2009

I sent my 8-year-old daughter to my ayurvedic physican yesterday. Instead of drugging her up, I decided to try aryuveda. She is vata pitta, and her vata way out of control, that quintessential ADD symptom. And it’s about proper nutrition that she’s not getting. She’s always been a minimal eater Feeding her brain will help [...]

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Children Learn Best Through Play

April 11, 2009

There are some educators out there talking about making school last six days a week. My goodness, if any child were made to sit another day in public school, they might as well go insane. The problem is the way kids are taught. Sitting at a desk learning one subject at a time with worksheets [...]

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